How will Snow Leopard compare with Windows 7?

Rhisiart · #1 December 28th, 2008, 05:42 AM

krassyo · #2 December 28th, 2008, 05:51 AM

Well I seem to miss the Snow Leopard part and see no comparison at all on this page

**fryke** · #3 December 28th, 2008, 05:53 AM

In my totally unprofessional opinion, Windows 7 will be much better than Vista ever was for Microsoft. But then there's a *lot* of hope there, and the expectations might not get met once the final product arrives. Similar things happened for XP and Vista when they were first released.

Snow Leopard is not looking like it'll be a "wow!" release. It doesn't seem to be about UI features and stuff, rather about cleaning up the act, getting rid of PowerPC etc. It also looks like graphics cards will get a much bigger role in 10.6. I'm looking forward to that.

I don't think it'll be much of a "brainer". Windows might find its grip again, but by its release, Apple will have continued to eat into the market pie. And I don't see that momentum fade anytime soon. Let's see whether Apple's new products at MWSF will be products that can bring more people over to our side of the pond. A new Mac mini might almost certainly help that cause. It's been denied of that role lately by not having been updated.

Rhisiart · #4 December 28th, 2008, 06:08 AM

I'd be pleased to see the Mac Mini updated. However I would recommend that potential Mac Mini purchasers go for maximum memory and hard disc capacity at time of purchase.

Having looked at the beta snapshots of Windows 7 I am disappointed to see the perennial (and very irritating) Windows pop-ups are still a feature.

**fryke** · #5 December 28th, 2008, 09:38 AM

About that Mac mini comment: Here's to the hope that the Mac mini gets a clue from the unibody MacBooks and lets users install RAM and harddrive themselves easily. Yeah, it hasn't been Apple's thing in the past, but the MacBook and MBP shows that they can and currently are willing to do it. But that's off-topic.

About the Win7 thing: I don't think MS will walk off their long-trodden paths too much. The same things that have been irritating us in the past will continue to do so in the future. In other ways, maybe. Remember how Windows XP suddenly got that ugly Fisher-Price look? It was toy-like at best. Today it's called the more professional alternative, because Vista has taken its cues from 3D games instead of a user interface handbook. I'm not entirely sure Microsoft gets that at all, but from what I've seen about Win7 by now, I just don't think so.

I mean: Take a look at image 23 of that gallery... Don't they see how that upper lip is plain ugly? I don't see any way to see this any differently.

Or this one... They seem to have quite an issue with space. It doesn't look right. At all.

Much worse, though: It's not gonna feel right. Microsoft hasn't tried to get the "feel" part of "look & feel" right. They've played with effects of menus fading etc. and they've been playing with transparency effects lately, but they just haven't actually looked at GUIs that _do_ feel right. I fully expect them to release some kind of new mouse next year with force-feedback to add effects to handling Windows 7. It'll feel even more like a computer game, and that might attract the game folks, actually, but they won't get it right. History proves it. They just don't get these things.

Rhisiart · #6 December 28th, 2008, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by fryke

I don't think MS will walk off their long-trodden paths too much ....

There lies the rub.

Mikuro · #7 December 28th, 2008, 12:11 PM

I'll believe it when I see it. I remember people asking how Longhorn would compare to Jaguar, then Panther, then Tiger, and finally Leopard (although they did beat Leopard to market by almost a year). I realize Microsoft is trying to learn from their mistakes, but I'll still be surprised if Windows 7 is released in 2009. You know the old saying from Texas: "Fool me once...shame on........shame on you........................fool me can't get fooled again."

In any case, I'm sure that Windows will still be Windows. I can't use an XP machine for 5 minutes without Windows doing something annoying. Oh, there are unused icons on my desktop, you say? Not interested. Oh, there are unused icons on my desktop, you say? No, still not interested. Oh, there are....FINE! DO WHATEVER YOU WANT! JUST STOP BOTHERING ME!

**chevy** · #8 December 28th, 2008, 12:45 PM

I believe that 7 will be a shrunk down version of Vista, less fancy but much more efficient and completely recompiled to use the most recent hardware.

And 7 may include all little apps that are currently of Live so that you can you your files locally or remotely.